Constituent status tailored to Zagreb: A shrapnel in the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina!

By: Rasim Belko

Here they are again, coming to our house to tell us what kind of government and system we must have if we are to survive. True, this time it's not Plenković or Vučić as followers of Tuđman and Milošević, but one from that pleiad of followers of hegemonic aggressors.

Gordan Jandroković, the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, visited Bosnia and Herzegovina yesterday and today. He spoke with parliamentarians, visibly pushing the Croatian side of both the parliament and the state. Yesterday, he told us that Zagreb is a friend, that we are partners, and that they will help us.

Today, in Mostar, conceived as the Croatian capital, after a double dose of hegemonic sherbet, he announced that if we even think of Bosnia and Herzegovina becoming like its "friend" Croatia, then Bosnia and Herzegovina will cease to exist.

In translation, either we behave as Zagreb wants, or we are finished. And Jandroković tells us all this with a smile: "I believe that this concept of three constituent and equal peoples will prevail in the end, because, it seems to me, if there is no constituent status and equality, then there will be no BiH. Many do not understand what happened in the 90s, nor why the Dayton Agreement was signed, but thank God there are witnesses of the time and those who understand why it was necessary at that moment. I believe that the European path will strengthen this concept and principles, but not at the expense of the sovereignty and functionality of BiH, but quite the opposite," Jandroković stated from Mostar.

And what constituent status tailored to Zagreb means, we witness daily by observing the functioning, or rather, the non-functioning of institutions. Constituent status tailored to Zagreb is the deepest meaning of Čović's statement: "The Southern Interconnection is a strategic interest of BiH, and of the Croatian people in BiH because it passes through the cantons, and no one can tell me it's someone else's interest. The main dilemma is BH Gas.

I said, just as we have BH Gas, we will have the Southern Gas Interconnection, which will be owned by the Government of the Federation of BiH. Allowing someone else to manage a vital, strategic energy source like gas with different possible strategies would be politically naive. I don't want someone to shut down the gas pipeline from Sarajevo to Posušje tomorrow".

If there were a Putin energy dictionary, this statement by Čović would probably be at the top in terms of its content and value. Because Čović does not want a valve in the capital city; he needs it in Herzegovina, from where, in the style of Comrade Putin, he could blackmail Sarajevo, which has long been starved of energy.

Similarly, constituent status tailored to Jandroković, Plenković, or Čović is reflected in the fact that neither Marko, nor Blaž, nor Željko can sit in the Presidency of BiH without the prior consent and seal of HDZ planners for the final division of Bosnia.

That is why the poorest member of the European Union, and Croatia undoubtedly is, pays what is called the European Court of Human Rights to rule unlawfully and falsely in favor of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the citizen Slaven Kovačević in a case that could potentially send constituent equality into history, where it should be.

Because Plenković, Jandroković, and Čović know that only by maintaining constituent status as the foundation for the political organization of BiH are they building the possibility for the final killing of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the long run. And that is a fundamental part of the foreign policy created by HDZ, both in Zagreb and Mostar.

And as long as "friends" like Jandroković, his political bosses and mentors, as well as identical political phenomena from the east, come to and circle around Bosnia and Herzegovina, it must be clearly and loudly stated that the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina is ongoing, and that political unity for the sake of that defense is needed more than ever.

However, there is neither unity nor defense. Because Jandroković's boss, like Vučić in Sarajevo, will very simply and easily find political elements with whom they will preserve constituent status as a lingering shrapnel near the heart aorta of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Whoever doubts this should look around them, question the motives of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmedin Konaković, the Minister of Defense Zukan Helez, the Minister of Transport Edin Forto, the Minister of Human Rights Sevlid Hurtić, and the pleiad of political figures who serve the aforementioned.

And not only the aforementioned, because the hybrid political system that preserves constituent status as a key segment for regional hegemonists in Sarajevo far exceeds political, party, and all other affiliations.

In fact, throughout the entire system of political parties based in Sarajevo, figures and shadows extend that help Zagreb and Belgrade preserve the shrapnel that is waiting to kill Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's a shrapnel from Karađorđevo, only we don't see it, so it deceives us into thinking it's gone.

Therefore, it sometimes seems superfluous to criticize Jandroković and those like him for openly stating the ultimate political plan for the disappearance of this state during their free stroll through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And the ultimate political plan of Croatia and Serbia towards Bosnia and Herzegovina is that napkin on which the line dividing these two (un)friendly states was drawn.

The question we must ask ourselves before answering Jandroković would be - are we ready, and to what extent, to defend the statehood, integrity, and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina and try to remove that shrapnel that is waiting for its time?

Judging by the current political moment, the answer is clear even to laymen - WE ARE NOT. And whether we will be, IT IS UNKNOWN!